Re: Building a Manual with XML/XSL

Hi Ivan,
 Assuming you would have sub1, sub2 and sub3 as
maximum depth (i.e. 3) of *sub tags*, I suggest the
following XSL --

<xsl:for-each select="chapter">
  <xsl:for-each select="sub1">
    <h1><xsl:value-of select="@title"/></h1>
      <xsl:for-each select="para">
        <p><xsl:value-of select="."/></p>
      </xsl:for-each>
      <xsl:for-each select="sub2">
      <h2><xsl:value-of select="@title"/></h2>	
<xsl:for-each select="para">			  <p><xsl:value-of
select="."/></p>
        </xsl:for-each>
	<xsl:for-each select="sub3">
	  <h3><xsl:value-of select="@title"/></h3>
	    <xsl:for-each select="para">
	      <p><xsl:value-of select="."/></p>
	    </xsl:for-each>
	</xsl:for-each>
       </xsl:for-each>
   </xsl:for-each>
   <hr/>  <!-- you may write a horizontal line after
each chapter -->
</xsl:for-each>

If you have sub4, sub5 etc, you may nest more for-each
loops ..

Regards,
Mukul


--- Iván_Montoro_Ten <ivanm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> This is my very first post to the list, so please
> forgive me if
> I'm writing to the wrong place (and also forgive my
> poor english!)
> 
> I'm building several manuals with XML for a product
> we make. I've
> seen several frameworks for it, but I'm looking for
> something 
> easier, as a bare XML file and a XSL HTML transform
> (maybe later
> I'll get PDF, but that's too much for me right now!)
> 
> So, in the following scenario:
>
------------------------------------------------------------
> <manual>
>   <chapter title="Begining with...">
>     <sub1 title="To start...">
>       <para>text text text</para>
>       <sub2 title="What you need">
>         <para>text text text</para>
>       </sub2>
>       <sub2 title="Doing it well">
>         <para>text text text</para>
>         <sub3 title="Don't forget...">
>           <para>text text text</para>
>         </sub3>
>         <para>text text text</para>
>       </sub2>
>     </sub1>
>   </chapter>
> </manual>
>
------------------------------------------------------------
> I've the basic skeleton for my document. I want XSL
> to transform
> this in a basic <P></P>, <H1></H1>, <H2></H2>
> structure, but
> I don't know how to iterate the subelements
> linearly, rather I
> know how to xsl:for-each them. Is there any solution
> for this?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ivan Montoro 
> 
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